ST. LOUIS, Mo.  –  The final week of the regular season has arrived! The Miners will be playing against the UMSL Tritons in St. Louis Thursday through Saturday as they make a final push to earn a spot in the GLVC Baseball Championship.
 
Coming off a three-game series against Rockhurst that was complicated by poor weather, the Miners have a 24-21 overall record and are 14-17 in conference. They hold the 10th position in the standings, just 2 games behind eighth place.
 
The Miners took two out of three games against Rockhurst last week, getting 2-1 and 11-8 wins. Dylan Mollett's (St. Louis, MO/Oakville) performance in game one of the series earned him his second GLVC Pitcher of the Week award, as he put up a 0.00 ERA and struck out 8 batters. Game two was a rollercoaster of a game, with S&T leading 4-0 in the seventh but finding themselves down 8-4 in the middle of the tenth. A seven-run inning for the Miners in the bottom of the tenth would conclude with a three-run homerun that gave S&T a walk-off victory in their final home game of the season.
 
The Miners' team ERA improved to a 6.85 after their series against the Hawks, making them seventh in the conference. Mollett's award-winning performance has three top ten rankings in the individual leaderboards. He is seventh in ERA with a 4.35, ninth in strikeouts with 61, and tied for ninth in opposing batting average with a .257.
 
S&T's batting average is a .292, recording 390 hits this season as well as 35 home runs. The team on base percentage is still fifth best in the league at .427. The Miners are also fourth best in stolen bases, recording 86 on the season after picking up another 5 in the series against Rockhurst University. The Miners continue to lead the conference in triples with 18, as Garrett Weiner (Alton, IL/Marquette) leads the team with 3 this season. Kenneth Sugi (North Vancouver, BC/Carson Graham Secondary) continues to have success at the plate as well, recording 4 runs and 4 RBIs against Rockhurst and striking out the second fewest times of anyone in the GLVC.
 
About the Opponent:
 
The University of St. Louis-Missouri Tritons are coming off a series against Upper Iowa in which they went 3-1. Their season record is 29-17 with a 20-12 conference record. They are currently fourth in the conference standings and have already clinched a place in the GLVC championships.
 
They have had success in both batting and pitching this season, ranking third in batting average with a .326 and fourth in ERA with a 6.26. The Tritons have two batters in the top ten for batting average, Braedon Stoakes with a .417 and Barrett Rose with a .385. Stoakes also leads Division II in triples with 9 this season. Their best pitcher is Zach Haygood, who has a 3.44 ERA and has held opposing batters to a .249 batting average.
 
Series Schedule:
 
Game 1 – Thursday at 2 p.m.
Games 2 & 3 – Friday doubleheader starting at 12 p.m.
Games 4 – Saturday at 12 p.m.